“Impaired Professionals”? We are pleased to announce that we have been recognized as a “recommended provider” of effective and confidential treatment services by the Federation of State Physician Advocacy Groups (FSPAG). FSPAG was formed to combat the abuse of physicians by the traditional HPPs (Health Professionals Programs) that blackmail physicians into expensive, demeaning, ineffectual, and [...]

Control, Influence, Acceptance, and Successful Behavior Change Our February 14th issue addressed changing what we can, last week we wrote about influencing what we can, and this week we’re taking up the challenge of acceptance. There are, of course, things we can’t change: our age, height, who are parents are, and who won the Super [...]

Control, Influence, Acceptance, and Successful Behavior Change Last week we looked at changing what we can and this week it’s time to look at influencing what we can. Much as all of us would like to be able to make someone else change, we can’t. The best we can manage is to change ourselves, which [...]

Valentines Day? This year, why not give yourself a loving Valentine’s gift that will also be a long term present to those you love and who love you in return? Here’s how to start – Control, Influence, Acceptance, and Successful Behavior Change God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage [...]

Why Do “They” Insist You Label Yourself An “Alcoholic”? A frequent question we get from clients after they have returned home is that spouses and/or other family members are adamant that they must now publicly label themselves as “alcoholics” and “admit” they are. Since labeling oneself an alcoholic is about the most destructive thing you [...]

Why We Only Accept One New Client Each Week Callers often ask about our policy of only adding one new client, or couple, per week. Granted, it doesn’t make us rich, but it does insure that you will receive the attention that changing your relationship to alcohol requires. It also allows us to invest in [...]

“Your Empowering Solution” Five years ago when we sat around discussing whether or not to combine our individual practices, we played around with what we should name it. We knew what we did, and what you might want, but how to describe it? We played around with acronyms and slogans and had brainstorming sessions and [...]

Yes, They All Lie As Mary Ellen noted in her Newsletter article, “Ten Things I Wish I’d Known Before I Sent My Brother Off To Rehab,” all 12-Step/AA based programs lie to you when you call looking for help. Why? First, because they don’t have anything to sell you that you can’t get for free [...]

Welcome to 2010! As a boy growing up in the 1950s, 2010 would have seemed unimaginably far away. Now my response is more apt to be, “How’d it get here so soon?” But here it is and a better question is this: am I living a more satisfactory life than I was a year, a [...]

Auld Lang Syne May 2010 Be The Year When Alcohol Abuse Ceases To Be An Issue Or Concern For You And Yours! New Years is always associated with resolutions to live a better life – promises to ourselves that most of us break before Valentines Day. Why is that? What happens to those good intentions? [...]